How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Next year's going to be even bigger, days will be brighter, nights longer and darker, more people dying, more babies born, and me in the middle of it all." (40.13)
This is the hard-won happiness Doug achieves at the end of the book. It also seems to be a bigger happiness, a growth which seems indebted to his greater appreciation for the sorrows that also come in life.